Monday, September 19, 2011

It’s no big secret that one of my best friends is Jolanthe from Homeschool Creations. I met her online years ago and our friendship went from blog comments, to emails, to phone calls, to visits! This is one thing I am most thankful that God has given me through blogging-true friendship with Jolanthe and a few others! Here is us cheesing while at Relevant last year!

I tell you all of that so you know upfront that I am TOTALLY biased and think anything she creates is simply wonderful. I feel I must disclose this in a huge way! So, now that you know that, I am honored to host a giveaway for my friend and her wonderful Weekly Homeschool Planner, even though I don’t even use it myself! The only reason I don’t use hers is because I created my own {just for myself}. We do many of the same things and even talked a lot as she was creating the planner.

40 weeks of weekly planning and journal sheets: each page can be customized to the subjects that your family studies and can be saved to your computer!

Preschool planning sheets

Field trip/Event plan sheets

Yearly curriculum planning sheets

Yearly planning and evaluation sheets

Yearly attendance tracking sheets

Field trip/Event plan sheets

Daily to-do lists

Main dish menu planner

Customizable chore charts

Important contacts info

Additional note space

Standardized testing and yearly assessment result tracking

Homeschooling requirement planning

Type your lesson plans into the form and print them off or simply save them to your computer, the choice is up to you! You can edit your plans any time and even save your planner to your computer to have a digital copy each year.

One thing that I was really confused about when I previewed the final copy of the planner for Jolanthe before it went up for sale was the duplicate lesson planning pages {and duplicates of various others}. I obviously had a lot to learn about editable PDF files {which I don’t create}. She explained to me that when saving an editable PDF product you can’t copy/paste the pages and must have a blank copy of each page you plan to use. So, if this confuses you also-know that you aren’t alone. Jolanthe is smarter than both of us! ha ha!

She also has an affiliate program that you can join and even make a bit of $ yourself!! You can read more about that on her Weekly Homeschool Planner sale page too.

BUY IT!
If you’d rather not wait to see if you win, you can purchase the Weekly Homeschool Planner for just $20, which is a steal considering you can use it year after year! Be sure to view the sample pages, as well as the fine print at the bottom of her site and ask any questions you may have beforehand! Jolanthe is very willing to help you figure out if this is the planner for you!

WIN IT!
Jolanthe is giving away the Weekly Homeschool Planner to one of my readers!Mandatory Entry: Visit the Weekly Homeschool Planner to take a peek and then leave a comment letting us know you’d like to win!!!
After you do that, you can gain some extra entries by any of the following, remember to leave an extra comment for each item so they will count as entries...

This Giveaway is open for anyone!
I will select a winner using Random.org, so be sure you leave a separate comment for each entry, I will also be moderating comments to check that your entries are valid-please be honest! Contest ENDS October 1, 2011. Winner will be announced here, and emailed (your email MUST be in each comment/or enabled in blogger). Winner must reply to my email within 48 hours or another winner will be chosen.
Linking up with Giveaway Day on Hip Homeschool Moms!

Funny, I won this from Confessions of a Homeschool Mom and thought why on earth are all these duplicates in here? I just figured I'd copy and paste..glad to know I'm not the only one completely in the dark.

Would love to win this. I tried using a completely electronic planner and it just didn't work for me. I'm going back to paper. This planner would be a nice middle road of some technology but still kind of paper-based.

This may be just what I need right now. I am so disorganized when it comes to planning this year. I would love to win this giveaway so that I can get my act together. I agree with you everything that she makes is awesome! Thank you for the opportunity.God bless, Tracey M. at Tot Play: A Learning Journeytlmswt2000(at)msn(dot)com

I have seen this planner and am very excited about it. I would love to win this planner to use. This is our first year in homeschooling and I just know this would be very helpful as we are getting started and trying to stay on track! Thanks for creating it Jolanthe!

I have checker out her planner a few times. I am new to homeschooling and my kids are just little yet, so I am not sure what I need to keep myself organized. I am sure I would find it here, and be all set to start Kindergarten next year! Thanks for the chance to win it!